Fastener for straps



J. B. GATE RIGHT. FASTE'N'ER FOR-STRAPS.

(No Model.)

Patented Jan; 3, 1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOSIAH B. GATHRIGHT, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.-

FASTENER FOR STRAPS.

SPECIFICATION-forming part'of Letters Patent No. 251,776, dated January 3, 1852.

Application filed March 21,1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, JOSIAH B. GATHRIGHT,

a citizen of the United States, residingat Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Strap-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to .which it appertains to make and use the same,

reference being had to the accompanyingdraw ing, and to the letters or figures of reference marked thereon,which formsapart of this specification.

My invention consists in an improved form of cast-metal jaws for securing straps and the adaptation of the same for use with rings, buckles, 850., when not cast as a part of them.

The drawing shows my improved fastener cast as a projection from or in one piece with an ordinary buckle. It may also be cast separately from the buckle and be adapted to loop about a bar of thebuckle.

The fastener is composed of an upper and lower jaw, solidly connected at one end and open at the other, one of the jaws, A, being in the form an open frame, the central opening in it being-large enough to allow the other jaw,

jaws forced to clamp it the teeth will pene-- trate the leather and hold it securely.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cast-metal strap-fastener constructed with two jaws, A and B, one of which is in skeleton form and one or both toothed, as and for the purpose specified.

2. A metal strap-fastener composed of jaws A and B, one of which is provided with a loop, E, as and for the purpose specified. In testimony whereof I have set my hand this th day of December, 1880.

JOSIAH B. GATHRIGHT. Attest: J OHN J HARRISON,

G. W. BRADEN." 

